Political Quotes

“The memo includes Farr's own retelling of meetings in which sending postcards to voters was discussed. In fact, Farr told colleagues that postcards might not be as effective in kicking voters off the rolls as they had been in 1984. It is impossible, though, to square this memo with Farr's denial to the Judiciary Committee that he had any knowledge of these actions. In addition, since that time, Mr. Farr has remained active in efforts to depress and dilute African-American voting. In several cases, Farr defended North Carolina's congressional and legislative districts that were drawn after the 2010 Census against allegations that the State legislature drew them to dilute the vote of African Americans. Farr has defended these districts before North Carolina's State courts, Federal courts, and the Supreme Court. However, in each instance, his arguments have been rejected. In North Carolina v. Covington, a three-judge panel in the Middle District of North Carolina found that ``race was the predominant factor motivating the drawing of all challenged [state legislative] districts.'' In Harris v. McCrory, two of the three Federal judges on a panel held that the State's congressional redistricting plan violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. In 2016, Farr also defended North Carolina's restrictive voter ID law in the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory. He had served as an adviser to the State legislature as it was considering that legislation.…”